Planning for Assessment
Have students use print, audio-visual, and/or electronic sources to examine the nationalist beliefs of Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah, as articulated in their writings/speeches.
RESOURCES
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( Mahatma Gandhi)
Salt March 1930-2005 This site was created by the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the salt march. This event occurred in 1930 when Gandhi and 78 of his followers engaged in a march. It is recognised as a key moment in the struggle for Indian independence. Though the website was originally created to commemorate the anniversary, it provides free access to a wealth of documetns relating to it. These include a history; photographs of Gandhi; moving film image clips; political cartoons and a bibliography of further readings.
- MAHATMA - Life of Gandhi, 1869-1948 (5hrs 10min)
- 309 min
The Gandhi National Memorial Fund
- www.gandhiserve.org
"This is a 5 hrs. 10 min. documentary biography of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi's life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values. The purpose of the film is to tell the present and the future generations "that such a man as Gandhi in flesh and blood walked upon this earth", to acquaint them with his life and work and to spread his message of peace and universal brotherhood to the war-weary and fear-stricken world. The film brings together a mass of visual record not only of 78-year life of Gandhi but also of an important period of India's history. The aim of the film being education and not entertainment, there is no attempt at dramatization of those exciting times. The story is told with an eye to truthful documentation of the main events within the limits of available documentary visual material"
Jawaharlal Nehru
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
